IIS server hardware specs

[Guest Cindy B]

Hi-

Just a quick question; we are a local gov and are preparing to bring our web

server in-house. My questions is - what are recommended server specs? I

guess I'm looking for a reliable source, I have found some info on the web,

but not finding anything that I feel is real reliable or unbiased. Has

anyone have any current recommendations - or sites they could recommend to

find a recommendation?

We will be running IIS, with some look up capabilites.

- thanks in advance for your help or suggestions!....

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Cindy B

[Guest Mathieu CHATEAU]

Re: IIS server hardware specs

 

Hello,

 

hardware is used to meet workload. When people doesn't know their workload,

they buy bigs servers hoping it will do the job...

 

Let's say 2Ghz and 2GB of ram, 146GB of disks

 

After, it will depends mainly on:

website technology (C# ?)

Memory used by the application pool

number of simultaneous users

using SSL (https) (take cpu)

 

Microsoft minimum requirement are much smaller:

Windows Server 2003, Web Edition: System requirements

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/beef11c1-0739-46df-8498-8e50b7b5fd4b1033.mspx?mfr=true

 

I prefer to scale with two smaller web server than just a big one (as it

introduce high availability, no single point of failure)

 

You should make load test on your dev machine to determine if it's hardware

meets your business goal (displaying pages in less than 2s with 25 users on

it...)

You may use opensta to make load (open source), for example.

 

Making load test takes time but it's the better way to find you real needs

for your own application.

 

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Cordialement,

Mathieu CHATEAU

http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com

 

 

"Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message

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> Hi-

> Just a quick question; we are a local gov and are preparing to bring our

> web

> server in-house. My questions is - what are recommended server specs? I

> guess I'm looking for a reliable source, I have found some info on the

> web,

> but not finding anything that I feel is real reliable or unbiased. Has

> anyone have any current recommendations - or sites they could recommend to

> find a recommendation?

> We will be running IIS, with some look up capabilites.

> - thanks in advance for your help or suggestions!....

> --

> Cindy B